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Child Care 101 : Early Childhood Educators and the Wage Gap

August 13, 2024
En Español Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care When it comes to fixing our nation’s broken child care system, our leaders must address the worsening pay gap and low wages of Early Childhood Educators along with issues of child care...
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Child Care 101: Child Care Deserts

August 12, 2024
En Español Our Child Care 101 Blog Series focuses on informing and educating voters who want to support child care What designates an area as a child care desert, what even is a child care desert? According to our friends at the Center for American Progress, a child care desert is “any census tract...
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Another Solution to the Social Media Over-Use That’s Jeopardizing Kids’ Mental Health

July 19, 2024
By Jodi Grant and Delaney Ruston The calls to protect our kids from the harms caused by social media are intensifying. The Surgeon General issued an unprecedented call to put warning labels on social media platforms. Los Angeles’s Unified school District, the second largest school district in the...
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Pride Month
5 Fabulous LGBTQ+ Books in Spanish!

Five Fabulous LGBTQ+ Books in Spanish!

June 30, 2024
The following is a pile of books that came recommended, won awards, or are books I've heard about for years, all written for Spanish speakers and about the LGBTQ experience. In Las Aventuras de China Iron, author Gabriela Cabezon Camara rewrites Martín Fierro from a feminist, LGBTQ, and postcolonial perspective. China Iron travels across Argentina by covered wagon, learning about the cultures, languages, and environment along the way.
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5 increíbles libros LGBTQ+ en español

June 30, 2024
Este grupo de libros me han sido recomendados, han ganado premios o tengo años escuchando de ellos, todos escritos por personas que hablan español sobre la experiencia LGBTQ. Pride Spanish Books Square 2.jpg En la casa de los sueños (In the Dream House) por Carmen Maria Machado nos habla de una...
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¡Regístrate para votar y dale un vistazo a nuestra lista de lectura de verano para los futuros votantes!

June 27, 2024
A pesar de lo importante y fundamental que es votar, a veces puede parecer un poco aburrido, especialmente cuando estamos tratando de enseñarle a los pequeños de nuestra vida sobre este importante deber cívico. ¡La buena noticia es que tenemos la oportunidad de volver a hacer que este fundamental...
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Register to vote + check out our future voter summer reading list for kids!

June 27, 2024
En Español As important and fundamental as voting is, it can feel kind of, well, dry, especially when we try to teach the young ones in our lives about this important civic duty. The good news is we have a chance to put the FUN back in this FUNdamental act of democracy by educating the future...
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Pride Month
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Standing Up for Our Kids During Pride Month - The Absurdity of Sports Bans

June 25, 2024
As a Granite State mom, I’m heartbroken and outraged that we’ve been working to defeat yet another sports ban in our state this year. HB 1205 – which seeks to ban transgender girls from participating in girls' sports from grades 5 through 12 – goes against everything we should stand for, especially...
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Pride Month
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Gender Justice in Sports Cannot Succeed Without Trans Women and Girls

June 25, 2024
Trans women and girls belong at the very heart of the gender justice and women’s rights movement. As a women’s rights advocate, I am all in for fighting for trans and non-binary people to be able to thrive, exist in peace, and experience the rights we all should get to enjoy, including in sports...
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MomsRising Community Safety Coloring Challenge

June 25, 2024
Are you an artist or creative? Do you have ideas on what our communities need to thrive and build a sense of safety and belonging? If so, we invite you to join the MomsRising coloring/drawing for a community safety challenge! MomsRising has been working at the local, state, and federal levels to...
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